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SEGTIONAL WEED CUTTER.

No. 376,735. Patented Jan. 24, 1888..-

@Zfj UNITED STATES DENIS M. DENEHY AND HEMAN W.

PATENT OFFICE. 1

OHILDS, or AoAMPo, CALIFORNIA} VSECTIONAL WEED-CUTTER.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,735,.dated January 24, 1888.

Application filed September d6, 1887. Serial No. 250.772. (No model.)

To all 10720112, it may concern/.-

I Be -it known that we, DENIs M. DENEHY and HEMAN W. OHILns, citizens of the United States, residingat Acampo, in the county of San Joaquin and State of California, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Sectional \Veed-Gutters; and we do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and ex act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked. thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention consists ina cutting-blade and frame of a certain construction, whereby the machine may be used as a whole,or in two sec tions, as may be desired. 7 To more fully explain our invention, refer ence is had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which- Figure l is aside elevation; Fig. 2 is a top View.

Similar letters of referencedndicate corresponding parts.

A are the forked beams of the frames, having curved rear ends, the handles A being attached at the elbows of the curves.

two center bolts b.

The cutter B is constructed in two straight sections attached to the feet of the curved of each set} of the beams A an dits auxiliary beams A are connected together and held in place by bolts a. Just back of-each of the beams A is a gage-wheel, 0, whose standard front with adraft-ring, e. The forward ends D isembraced between the ends of the respect- .ive beams A, and has aseries of gage-holes for regulating the positions oflthe wheel.

This implement is well adapted on the sutn- 'mer fallowed lands of California to cut down the rank growth of weeds usually springing.

up on such lands after the first rains of the winter season. k

\Ve have described this implement. as a whole, and composed of two sections. .To util-' iz'e each section for independent and separate actionthey are disconnectedby removing the two center bolts b, the rod F, and the clevisrods E and ring e.

with two curved beams are not new; but

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is' I p The improved cultivator described, consisting of the curved beams, the handles secured thereto, the cutter B,- composed of the two We are aware that weed-cutters constructed straight sections having their inner endsabut' ting and secured togetheijso as to form a con-- tinuous cutter in the same transverse plane,

and also secured to the lower ends of the said curved beams,'the draft-beams connected with the forward ends of the curved beams, the cross-rod connecting these draft-beams, and the clevis-rodsand draft-ring attached thereto,

substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures witnesses. DEN IS M. DENEHY. -HEMAN W. OHI LDS.

in presence of two Witnesses:

JOSHUA B. WEBsTE HENRY I. WARD. 

